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The next step in this bead is to use a tungsten pick, which is a very hard metal, to rake
some designs into the bead. Essentially, this is going to be very random. You're going to
want to get your bead pretty soupy, pretty molten, and as a precaution and as a preemptive
measure, what you're going to want to do is take your tungsten pick and put it in your
quench jar, so that the bead doesn't heat it up too much and it doesn't get stuck. As
you see it get soupy, what you're going to do is, you're just going to rake along the
beads. And, what I like to do is do all kinds of swirly patterns. And, you can do straight
lines as you're raking. And again, this is pretty random. If you feel your tungsten pick
is getting a little too warm, you're going to want to stick it back in the quench jar,
heat the bead up some more, go back in, make another swirl. You're essentially just looking
for interesting surface design, nothing symmetrical, nothing planned. You see a spot that you think
would be interesting if you kind of raked through it, you're going to go ahead and do
that. If you're tungsten pick gets stuck in the glass, you want to make sure you hold
the glass still and give it time to cool. Ivory glass is very soft and heats very quickly.
It also cools down very slowly. This right here, is the reason, you want to put your
tungsten pick in water. So, as it cools off, you're going to be able to work your tungsten
pick out, and maybe go ahead and find one or two more spots you want to swirl. We're
going to do a little bit more decoration up near the top. And then the next step is to
melt all of this flush.